Umbrasyl Quotes & Sayings

Over the long term, however, too much adrenaline produces scarring on the insides of your blood vessels. These scars become magnets for molecules to accumulate, creating lumps called plaques. These can grow large enough to block the blood vessels. If it happens in the blood vessels of your heart, you get a heart attack; in your brain, you get a stroke. — John Medina

If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

You know how it is when some great king enters a large city and dwells in one of its houses; because of his dwelling in that single house, the whole city is honored, and enemies and robbers cease to molest it. Even so is it with the King of all; He has come into our country and dwelt in one body amidst the many, and in consequence the designs of the enemy against mankind have been foiled and the corruption of death, which formerly held them in its power, has simply ceased to be. For the human race would have perished utterly had not the Lord and Savior of all the Son of God, come among us to put an end to death. — Athanasius Of Alexandria

It's very simple. Keep your body as clean as possible, your mind as clear as possible. That's all you need. And do it in anyway you can, in your own way. It doesn't matter. That's why I say 'peaceful body, peaceful mind'. And then you'll be useful. You don't have to become a useful person. You will be useful. — Swami Satchidananda

Maybe violent wickedness can be decapitated, but stupidity has too many heads. — Andre Glucksmann

I attract a different kind of boy when my hair's red. I get more quality men - like a more thoughtful, nerdy dude. — Kirsten Dunst

If the windmill should prove too formidable," said he, from the threshold, "I may see what can be done with the wind. — Rafael Sabatini

My claim is this: science and religion are incompatible because they have different methods for getting knowledge about reality, have different ways of assessing the reliability of that knowledge, and, in the end, arrive at conflicting conclusions about the universe. — Jerry A. Coyne

What does he know of the force that drives the utmost strangers into each other's arms, making them kin, kind, beyond all prudence? — J.M. Coetzee

The truth is, has always been, and always will be that we are utterly and hopelessly dependent on each other and on nature. Nor — Charles Eisenstein

I wanted to present a sweep and scope of larger events, and a grander backdrop, but most important was to set against that a very singular, real and modest people struggling with every day and human struggles. — Chang-rae Lee

Government is a necessary evil — Thomas Paine